1. Occasional access for members and non-members

The procedure below applies to club members and non-members who wish to take part occasionally in an activity organised by a CERN club on the CERN site.

Club members who wish to access the CERN site more than 5 times a year are considered to be regular visitors and must obtain a CERN access card following the procedure detailed under section 2.

It is the club’s responsibility to ensure that persons are not granted access authorisation more than 5 times a year.

1.1 Access request

Clubs that intend to invite people to their activities taking place on the CERN site can

• either ask each person to submit an individual access request,
• or choose to collect the details of all participants in advance and submit a group access request.

1.1.1 Individual access

At least two days before arriving on site, the person who wishes to access the CERN site must complete the form CERN club access request (via the Service Portal) indicating

• surname and first name,
• nationality,
• the registration number of the vehicle used on site, if applicable,
• e-mail address,
• telephone number,
• city of birth,
• date of birth,
• the club concerned,
• the reason for requesting access to CERN (trial class, enrolment, etc.),
• the CERN site (Prévessin or Meyrin) that the person wishes to access,
• the date of the visit (which must be in the future; it cannot be the same day).

After submission, the access request is sent to the club president concerned and to the persons designated by the latter for approval and then to the agent of the CERN Community Support Centre. Once approved, a confirmation including a reservation code is sent to the requestor and the club president.

1.1.2 Group access

Clubs organising events on the CERN site that are intended for a large number of people who do not have access can obtain access authorisation for a group of people.
The club must prepare an event via Indico and then activate visitor card management using the "CERN visitor badges" option in the "Logistics" menu. At the time of the activation, the creator of the event indicates which registration forms will be used to give access. The participant must register online using one of the forms indicated. The creator of the event then individually confirms each participant's right to access the site in Indico and the participant receive an e-mail asking him to fill in his nationality, date and place of birth (in an Indico form). When this information has been submitted, each participant receives an e-mail containing a reservation code and a visitor card, which should be printed in A4 format and then folded into four to obtain an A6 format.

Note for clubs: A list of guarantors, i.e. those who can approve an individual or group access request, is managed using an e-group that contains the names of the guarantors. To add or remove a guarantor, the club president is invited to contact the president of the Clubs Coordinating Committee (CCC).

1.2 Access to the CERN site

The task of the security guards is to check, across the whole site, the identity of persons and vehicles, access authorisations and goods being transported. To help visitors find their way around, the security guards have maps of the CERN site available.

1.2.1 Individual accesses

On the day of the event, club members must go to the CERN Community Support Centre (building 33), take a ticket, go to the designated desk, give the code to the agent and collect their visitor card(s) presenting a valid identity document.

Outside opening hours and at any time, club members can go to the security guard at Entrance B and ask for their visitor card to be printed. 

If the event takes place on the Prévessin site, club members must go to the main entrance of the Prévessin site to collect their visitor card.

Access to CERN takes place exclusively via the Entrance B of the Meyrin site or via the Main Entrance to the Prévessin site, on the day indicated in the confirmation.

2. Regular access for members

Club members who wish to access the CERN site regularly (more than five times a year), must obtain a CERN access card.

2.1 How to obtain a CERN card

Members of clubs who need a CERN card should contact their club, specifying their first name, surname and e-mail address.

1. Club presidents then use the formulaire de pré-enregistrement pour les Externals / Pre-registration form for Externals (PREGEX) available under EDH to launch the request to register the person as "External, reason: CLUB" on the person's behalf by entering their first name, surname and e-mail address.
   It is also necessary to indicate the name of the guarantor in the request: generally this is the club's president, but if the person is not a staff member, another member of the club committee who is a staff member may act as the guarantor.

2. Club members are invited, via an automatically generated e-mail, to complete the form in EDH indicating their:
   • nationality
   • date and place of birth
   • marital status
   • the details of their identity document: type, number, country of issue, validity dates.
   N.B. It is important that the name and first name(s) entered correspond exactly to the identity document, as without this information the registration cannot be validated by the CERN Community Support Centre.
   The link provided is accessible for up to 3 months.
3. Next, the following services and individuals must approve the registration request in EDH:
   • the guarantor (as named in the request), who validates the identity of the club member,
   • the IDNow tool, to verify the identity of the External (cf. the paragraph 1.2 of the procedure "People registered as "External"" for more details),
   • the CERN Community Support Centre, after having checked the club member's eligibility for a CERN card
   • the Staff Association, to validate the registration request,
   • the person is then registered as "External, reason: CLUB" in the database. The registration will be valid for a maximum of one year. If the person is registered for a duration less than one year, the access card will be valid for this same duration.
4. Lastly, the following individuals are automatically informed that the registration is complete via an e-mail generated by EDH:
   • the guarantor,
   • the club member, who is invited to go to the CERN Community Support Centre (building 33) to take a photograph, which is an essential prerequisite for the card to be issued.

The card is valid for a period of one year and is renewable. It allows club members to access the CERN site in order to participate in the club activities for which they have enrolled. In the event of misuse, the card will be cancelled.

2.2 Extending the validity of the CERN card

The procedure described in section 2.1 must be followed when the card expires.

If club members are unable to go to the CERN Community Support Centre to collect their CERN card, the guarantor can request the CERN Community Support Centre to issue one on their behalf. Once the card has been issued, the guarantor can hand it over to the club member in person.